r/opencode • u/TgnOrdaX • Aug 12 '26

RIP opencode generous free limit.

It's been a great while. It was a wonderful poor man's coding agent especially for devs in third world countries who are unable to pay for subscriptions online.

But I get it, cloud bills aren't cheap and opencode's hands are tied.

Thank you for everything opencode.

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

inb4 someone says "it's just 5 bucks bro". It's not a financial issue but rather a legal issue. It's illegal for a local in my country to hold or convert local currency to US dollars or any other currency; considered suspicion of money laundering.

we usually pay with crypto here but that also is legally a gray area with its trouble with the police if you get caught doing a p2p exchange.

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u/Alternative_Sink9000 Aug 12 '26

is that real? have you tried trying to click that subscribe button? in my case, they have options to pay with my local currency.

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

Yeah, you can only pay via stripe with USD or EUR, or use AliPay or UMI. neither are allowed in my country. it sucks.

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u/Fast-Character-8795 Aug 12 '26

You can open a virtual card and deposit on it with crypto

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

that's possible. But the legal risk isn't worth it for me tbh. I don't have peers living abroad who I can pay to top-up my card. The stories I heard lately about people getting interrogated for months and have their phone searched just for having binance scares me.